{"id":5765,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/popularizing-the-occult\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:40","slug":"popularizing-the-occult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/popularizing-the-occult\/","title":{"rendered":"POPULARIZING\n  THE OCCULT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Entertainment; Influence; Occult; Satan; Television; Witchcraft<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 2:24\u201326<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Great Britain\u2019s Pagan Federation, which represents druids and witches, says the TV shows <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i> and <i>Sabrina the Teenage Witch<\/i> have fueled a rapidly growing interest in witchcraft among children. The organization averages one hundred inquiries a month from kids who want to become witches. In September, the federation appointed its first-ever youth officer to counsel young people.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A spokesman for the federation said his group is filling a spiritual need, picking up the baton dropped by the Christian church.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Tracy Dawn, <i>Plugged In<\/i> (October 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Entertainment; Influence; Occult; Satan; Television; Witchcraft References: 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 2:24\u201326 Great Britain\u2019s Pagan Federation, which represents druids and witches, says the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sabrina the Teenage Witch have fueled a rapidly growing interest in witchcraft among children. The organization averages one hundred inquiries a month from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/popularizing-the-occult\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POPULARIZING<br \/>\n  THE OCCULT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}